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The police investigation into Mayor Rob Ford is now looking at nine to 10 gigabytes of data from Alexander “Sandro” Lisi’s cellphone.

As Ford prepares to face-off with his mayoral campaign rivals on Wednesday for the first showdown of the 2014 election, another document from Project Brazen 2 was released by the courts Monday revealing that Toronto Police now have data from Lisi’s iPhone 4S and are looking for evidence of extortion.

Lawyers representing the Toronto Sun and other media outlets successfully argued for the release of the latest document — an information to obtain a search warrant (ITO) that was filed on March 7.

Police filed the ITO so they could get access to data including the data on the phone in relation to Lisi’s extortion charge.

Lisi — Ford’s friend and occasional driver — was charged with extortion last October in connection with the Ford crack video.

The document reveals police obtained the data — mostly video and audio files — when they took Lisi’s iPhone to Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., last month.

Now police believe they have access to the text messages, pictures, video, audio recordings, phone access logs, and address book from Lisi’s phone.

Police state they have “reasonable grounds to believe and do believe” the phone contains video, audio recordings and photos that “will afford evidence of the offence of extortion.”

“I believe that the data on it will further the investigation and potentially include or exclude other parties as participants or persons of interest in the extortion of (Liban Siyad) for the video featuring (Ford) smoking what appears to be a narcotic,” police state.

Police believe “images relevant to the extortion may have been sent to Lisi” and he filmed video to “prove he was able to retrieve the aforementioned video, and/or that he himself made surreptitious videos of those involved in the recording of the video, or both.”

The document states police are looking for any text messages sent or received before or after Feb. 17, 2013 — the day investigators believe Ford was filmed allegedly smoking crack.

“Production order results on Lisi’s phone confirm that he received numerous text message communications during the time frame of the extortion from both principal known persons in Project Traveller (a separate Toronto Police guns and gangs investigation) and persons close with (Ford),” the document states.

The document includes a lengthy account of the Brazen 2 investigation so far and stressed that the investigation’s mandate “was to look for any potential criminality involving” Ford.

“Lisi and his relationship to Robert Ford became one of the focuses of the investigation,” the document states.

Police argued against the release of the information in the document partly due to the ongoing investigation.

“In particular, the investigation into the home invasion at 15 Windsor Road is ongoing, and investigators continue to consider whether there are any parties to Lisi’s alleged extortion,” the document states.

Ford has yet to directly address questions about the latest documents.

Asked about the allegations as he left City Hall on Monday night, Ford ignored questions from a CP24 reporter and instead bragged about his track record.

“I saved taxpayers a billion dollars,” Ford claimed.

“I’ve got union deals, I’ve contracted out garbage, I’ve done what I said I was going to do.”

He also invited people to his April 17 re-election campaign kickoff.

“Mark my words, it will be a good event,” Ford said.

Ford is expected to be at City Hall on Tuesday for the executive committee meeting on the proposed expansion of the Toronto Island airport.